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… feelings and so he sketches out at the same time, through this vague contradiction, a neighborhood spirit, namely that … Stöhr's film " Berlin is in Germany " (2001), parts of this world city iconography resurface – but in a strange new … film " England! " (2000) the city as a transit camp and never-ending provisional arrangement: the austere roadmovie …
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… shouts and hand organs produce a strange, beguiling sound. This scene passes too. Then, when the child begins walking … of the loudspeakers - the audience joins in, shouting: "Stop!" And amidst laughter and protests, the screening comes …
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… the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation was established to stop a the sell-out to a foreign company. The … organization for the German Film Industry - initiated this measure with the support of the West German government. …
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… Ufa dominated the German film industry from 1917 to 1945. Never before and never again did one German film company … as a milestone: "The Ufa and all those who worked on this film have done a great service not only to the … family comedy " Wie sagen wir es unseren Kindern " ("How Will We Tell Our Parents"), while Erich Engel filmed the …
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… him in political difficulties again, making him decide to stop filming contemporary themes. Source: DIF, © … into conflict with the authorities when he continued in this vein with the satire " Zünd an, es kommt die Feuerwehr " …
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… the GDR as heir to Germany's best cultural traditions. In this spirit it produced adaptations of familiar fairy tales … " ("The Brave Little Tailor") by Helmut Spieß from 1956. This tradition of fairy-tale and children's films was …
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… Maetzig's "Das Kaninchen bin ich" ("I Am the Rabbit"). This adaptation of an unpublished novel by Manfred Bieler, … careers of a number of filmmakers were destroyed. Stahnke never made an interesting film again, while Beyer was banned … - Konrad Wolf noted: "Assessment of the situation: 8 films will not make it to the screen (Spur der Steine – which we …
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… of propagandistic hate speech. In order to account for this particular historical background, all German film … uniformly as Films of the National-Socialist Period. This is to draw attention to the fact that the content, … this uniform identification marks productions that have never before been received as propaganda- or "Nazi films". …
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… picture of the everyday reality of young Turks in Germany. This may be the case for some films, but it ignores the … background plays no role whatsoever - significantly, this film is the third in a trilogy about Turkish-German … as a sort of "cool hood", while Berlin's streets have never looked so cosmopolitan as in Thomas Arslan's work. The …
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… dependencies, love, hate and rage of the period. But this seems to be too much to be captured in one single film, so that we will probably never really see the unique, all encompassing "Wende film"... …
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… film as the illusion of moving pictures has had to do with this most basic of distinctions, which is rendered first … make the distinction with unhesitating certainty." Calling this seeming certainty into question is the first principle … rule: "The model of travesty in German cinema has never been that of seductive deception, but of ridiculing the …
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… entertainment particular to the new German middle class." This "particular style" would be developed in countless … from contemporary popular culture all left their mark on this form of musical sound-film. Its variety was reflected in … comedies from the early years of sound film vanished, never to return — not even after World War II, in the …
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… but also in Turkey. Even so, since the end of the 1990s, this double background is generally depicted as something … commonplace, auxiliary to the film. Thomas Arslan put it this way when discussing his film " Der schöne Tag ": … invoked clash between cultures is something she has never experienced herself. [...] She feels absolutely at home …
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… in Germany were made as early as the early 1960s. This was at the very beginning of the wave of immigration of … mentalities and the Central European way of life could never generate anything but conflict, so insurmountable were … primarily German directors portrayed their parents' lives. This second-generation cinema started out with documentaries …
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… in Germany were made as early as the early 1960s. This was at the very beginning of the wave of immigration of … mentalities and the Central European way of life could never generate anything but conflict, so insurmountable were … primarily German directors portrayed their parents' lives. This second-generation cinema started out with documentaries …
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… reflects the radical, antidemocratic transformation of this time—the end of the Weimar Republic. Two weeks earlier, … that of any historical period or national cinema — was never an entirely uniform and isolated corpus. The … apotheosis " Triumph des Willens " (Triumph of the Will, 1935), and " Ewiger Wald " (Enchanted Forest, 1936), …
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… polarized critics, historians, and the public alike. To this day, various, and often completely incompatible, … Anyone who considers the film as a discrete story-teller will find 'Metropolis' a bitter disappointment. What we are … has lodged in the visual memory even of those who have never seen the film – for since the appearance of …
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… in "Lola rennt" ("Run, Lola, Run", 1998) For at this time Tom Tykwer's "enjoyable glib and refreshingly terse … 1998, p. 48). When Falcon presents a positive critique of this film by drawing a parallel with the international … their unique supply of products: "What "Goodbye, Levin!" never quite deals with is the wrong-headedness of its …
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… reflects the radical, antidemocratic transformation of this time—the end of the Weimar Republic. Two weeks earlier, … that of any historical period or national cinema — was never an entirely uniform and isolated corpus. The … apotheosis " Triumph des Willens " (Triumph of the Will, 1935), and " Ewiger Wald " (Enchanted Forest, 1936), …
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… Republic is considered the springtime of German film. This reputation is based on the great number of … classics of film art, but they are only the tip of this "golden age" iceberg. The film business during the … Wolken kommt das Glück " (Amphitryon, 1935). While Germany never boasted an international star cult comparable to that …